Month: March 2019

Thoughts cave in; it’s futile to pull them back With taut muscles and wrecked brains Fragments of disillusioned emotions also surrender Once, only a flicker of a path was available Now the lights are dull; the temper of existence, tense The hope of crawling towards freedom with all might Something is not right in the […]

Tonight in my nest of stones I have not slept. Through the walls my neighbors fight over how best to spend their time as it silently slips through the space between their fingers. As the last grains fall it seems reasonable to be present for the hours left. When the dawn climbs above the ocean […]

We woke to another bright, sunny morning and after a leisurely breakfast we set off for a ride on the Zugliget Chairlift in the Buda Hills. This chairlift is included in the Budapest Card, otherwise an adult return fare is HUF 1400. To get there we took Bus 291 from Nyugati Railway Station, the journey […]

When the guide turned out the lightThe darkness drove away the space.Without the stars to show the nightReality crashed in my face.Kentucky vanished, out of sight.This cave below became no place. Linked to dVerse Poetics where Anmol is hosting with the theme of geography. This poem tries to show what can happen to the sense […]

Following are some of the terms used in topology which have similar definition or literal English meanings: Convex set: A subset of is called convex1 , if it contains, along with any pair of its points , also the entire line segement joining the points. Star-convex set: A subset of is called star-convex if there […]

It was a wish, a tiny dream, a maybe, an if—I spoke of it, asked for it, looked for the opening– I even prayed (although not to that god painted on the ceilings of cathedrals)– but gradually, or perhaps suddenly–(how our memories deceive us)– it became unspoken, blurred, a footnote in time, filed away– I […]

Maps and globes Routes and chosen roads Compass turning As the wind blows Seas and oceans Mountains and valleys Posted notes and push pins I see the number of miles My heart is up to the task So, I am following my heart * photo credit: Youth Charter

“Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein “starts” shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.” […]